Art installation photos

 

Build Oakland and Our City instruction signage creation

A Dad and Daughter creation 

Design Drawings for the Our City Oakland event installation by Gensler Oakland

OUR CITY OAKLAND EVENT

the city skyline scene above

 the planned assembly installation view below

A look back at the video about Oakland and the ideas of Live, Thrive, Love in the City

http://vimeo.com/douglaswittnebel/work-live-love-thrive-in-the-city-of-oakland-2014

 

 

http://vimeo.com/douglaswittnebel/work-live-love-thrive-in-the-city-of-oakland-2014

...for the love of a Flatiron building in Oakland, a greytone version...First National Bank of Oakland...1907

...all for the love of a Flatiron building in Oakland, a greytone version has been created and tested for a possible larger scale print version or maybe a wall version installation in downtown Oakland...

 

http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2014-03-10/urban-field-notes-new-drawings-old-buildings

 

 

Above San Pablo and Broadway stands the premier flatiron building of the West Coast, a younger sibling of the more famous Manhattan one. Most of the stories in this building are woven into the exchange of money and finance, Wells Fargo being the most recent bank tenant. The original tenant was the First National Bank of Oakland, in this building complete with safe deposit boxes and a full basement for secure storage of valuables, furs, jewelry and paintings.

 

Built in 1907 after the great San Francisco earthquake, the building was designed by architect Llewellyn B. Dutton, who chose white granite for the lower floors and warm terra cotta tiles for the upper story enclosure, which wraps smoothly around the acute corner next to Frank Ogawa Plaza.

 

Bank of Oakland Building on Broadway

 

This building sketch/painting of the former Bank of California building.  this was featured in the article from Urbanist magazine, published by SPUR.

http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2014-03-10/urban-field-notes-new-drawings-old-buildings 

At the corner of 12th Street and Broadway stands the original headquarters for the Bank of Oakland, a unique combination of lower masonry block muscle and a taller decorative tower. The main building went up in 1907, and the tower portion was added later, pushing up to the height of 225 feet (18 stories). Now the bank occupies the building with other tenants and histories. A series of Corinthian columns and pilasters support and frame the top levels of setback windows. The top-level spaces must have terrific views of the adjacent Tribune building. Perhaps the two towers wink at each other in the early morning hours.



Oakland series urban field notes

Oakland series urban field notes, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

A study for the cover set of urban field notes setting, downtown Oakland

Oakland Bank Building, Comerica, Bank of America, 1907

Oakland Bank Building, Comerica, Bank of America, 1907, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

...a night time drawing view of the top of the tower, Bank of Oakland building on Broadway, downtown Oakland, CA...

Urban field notes, painting one

Kicking off the new year of the horse, 2014, with a series of paintings that will be part of a set of urban field notes for Oakland.  The first version or view is of the beautiful and classic Oakland Tribune Tower.  Height 305 feet, 22 stories, tower built in 1923...

A six foot slice of space...last post of August

A painterly view of a selected slice of urban space, downtown San Francisco SOMA area, off of First Street and Ecker...created with sketchbookpro on ipad...

A view of Seattle

A quick visit to Seattle for design directors meetings at the Gensler Seattle office.  A painted view of the areas west and north of the downtown area, a mixture of the industry and signas and metal work and masonry...adobe ideas on ipad...

City National Bank painted

The finished painting of the City national Bank building, downtown Houston...

City National Bank Building, Houston, Texas

Using a painting too from the adobe ideas app, a series of progressive views of a beautiful deco building in downtown Houston, focusing on the top portion of the structure...

Historic name: City National Bank, 921 Main Street and McKinney

Current name: 1001 McKinney Building

Architect, Albert C. Finn

Completed: 1947

City of Houston Historic Landmark, National Registry of Historic Places

LA Public Library downtown view...

In the midst of downtown LA, you can find jewels and gems.  In this instance, a painterly view of the LA Public Library on Flower Street, designed by Goodhue and imbued with layers of symbols, quotes, and text...a magical knowledge building...